Chapter 89 - 89 (1/2)

Ryo JohnQ 26400K 2022-07-24

It's been more than a month since the battle against the Hidden Rock, and over the course of most of it, Ryo was helping Anko practice Sage mode.

The first problem to be solved was getting her to absorb natural energy safely.

To that end, Ryo went to Mount Myoboku, and asked Fakasaku about the mechanism of extraction of natural energy with his staff.

Fukasaku explained that knocking someone with that staff used a double mechanism: On one hand, it relied on the pain to interrupt the state of understanding one had with Natural Energy, and the other, the staff itself extracts the energy from the body.

After learning the principle, Ryo tried it and found that he could do it. So after consulting with Orochimaru, Anko started her new training.

Unlike the time when Ryo practiced Sage Mode, Anko had no access to Toad Oil. Although she could feel Natural energy, she could not absorb it. Ryo calmed her down and told her to try to feel nature and become one with it.

But Anko was only an 11-year-old child, with a very ”lively” character. She didn't sit still for 5 minutes before starting to look around and scratch her head.

Ryo could only call Orochimaru. Orochimaru, being her Sensei, had much more control over her. For now, they could at least keep her motionless.

Ten minutes later, the two looked at her with their faces blue. They were thinking that she was practicing serious, when suddenly the started drooling, making them realize that she had fallen asleep.

”Ryo kun, wake her up.” Orochimaru pointed to Ryo's staff.

Ryo approached her, got close to her ear and hit her on the head with his stick.

”Hey! It hurts! What are you doing Ryo?!”

”Sorry to interrupt your drooling… But please, can't you take this a bit more seriously?” Ryo said helplessly.

Anko smiled and looked at the stern eyes of her teacher, then immediately closed her eyes and sat down in focus.

This time, she didn't fall asleep; she began to gradually blend into nature by perceiving natural energy and mimicking its fluctuations.

This way, Anko completed the 1st step in her training. Over the following days, Ryo continued to teach her about Sage Mode training, while she kept training seriously under the watchful eyes of Orochimaru.

After practicing Sage Mode for half a month, Anko finally had a break through.

Natural energy surrounding her with its regular circulation suddenly started fluctuating, and a little of it flowed into her body.

That faint passage was like the key that opened the door between her and between natural energy.

Now her body established a connection with that energy, she became a part of the cycle of nature, and it started to flow into her body naturally.

Ryo witnessed a strange sight! Anko absorbed so much natural energy! yet, for some reason, her body wasn't being taken over by it, and it didn't show any kind of metamorphosis anywhere.

Anko suddenly opened up her eyes, and slammed into Ryo! While her body wasn't taken over, and did not turn into stone, she became extremely violent!

After discovering the reason why she acted that way, He told Orochimaru to control her movements. Then he used the stick from Mount Myoboku to knock the natural energy out of her.

The remaining natural energy in her body wasn't much. Observing her innate power level, Ryo extracted enough natural energy out of her to get all three types in her body in a ratio of 1:1:1.